Neal Rosendorf currently wears three hats: he is an assistant professor of U.S. International History at Long Island University in New York; a Fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California; and a researcher/oral historian with the Columbia Oral History Research Office’s project on the Council on Foreign Relations. He has previously taught at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, SUNY-Plattsburgh College, and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
He is an historian of U.S. foreign relations, modern international relations, transnational and globalization issues, Spain since 1930, and American cinema and popular culture. For the past decade he has been writing, lecturing and consulting around the world on subjects related to public diplomacy and the cultural dimensions of international relations.
Professor Rosendorf is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, which have been published in, among other venues, Diplomatic History, the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, and the Foreign Service Journal. He is completing a study of the life and transnational activities of the American film producer Samuel Bronston (University of Texas Press; Paul G. Nagle, co-author). His current research projects include a study of the Franco Regime’s Hispanidad policy, 1939-75 and its impact on the triangular Spanish-US-Latin American relationship; a study of relations between the United Nations and New York City since 1945; and a transnational history of the Motion Picture Export Association of America.
Neal Rosendorf earned a B.A. at Rutgers University, an M.A. at Ohio University, and an A.M. and Ph.D. at Harvard University; from 1998-2001 he was the full-time Research Specialist to Joseph S. Nye, the dean of the Kennedy School of Government at the time. |
